Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-04-14
BILE AND BLINDNESS.

Ouf morning mormon contemporary
is sick again. This sickness is caused,
as usual, by an undue secretion OF anti
Administration bile. The last nauseous
dose was directed at Governor West, and
now the Democratic Chief Executive is
made the object of the bilious overflow.
Our morning contemporary says in
effect that "Mr. Cleveland is not
popular with the people. That he has
not shown an appreciation OF the wants
OF the masses" First and foremost, our
contemporary is going out of its record.
What has an organ of the despotism of
Church and State to do with the people?
Popular wants and aspirations are as
sealed book to our benighted contempora-
ry. Does the sun shine at midnight? Can
the light of popular liberty irradiate the
darkness. of superstition and fanaticism? ?
The hereditary blindness of the morning
Church organ alone incapatiates it, but
when the periodical rush of anti
Administration bile is called upon to do
duty for brains, it is worse than helpless.
Let us see then what constitutes the hold
Grover Cleveland has upon the people,
for hold deep and enduring he has, de-
spite blindness and bile. Grover Cleveland
first drew the people toward him as
Governor of the great State of New York.
As the Democratic executive of that great
State, long Republican stronghold: Mr..
Cleveland proved to the people that he
was one of themselves. He was the re-
preventative of the masses who had con-
fided to him the reins of power. The good
of the people was his first and
only thought. By the time his Guber-
material term had closed, he
was recognized by the people OF the Ma
ton as well as of New York, as their
champion. And this recognition was
spontaneous. No heightened period of
years and services had been required to
tell the people that Grover Cleveland
was their friend. The knowledge came
to them instinctively. 1t was happy
political presentiment. Utterly unknown
few years before, the name
OF Grover Cleveland carried everything
before it in the National Democratic Con-
vention, and his Presidential nomination
was received with enthusiasm by the
masses. From the Executive Chair of
New York, he stepped into the Executive
Chair Of the Nation. As he filled the
one, he has filled the other.
His popular rule in New York
has widened into glorious
National Administration. He is the
peoples President, as he was the peoples
Governor. In a few short years Grover
Cleveland has obtained hold upon the
popular heart which in its comprehensive |
grasp, has never been equalled by
American leader or statesman. This
popularity is founded upon the rock
OF confidence. The people trust
their Democratic President. AS Gov
ernor or President he has never deceived
them. they know that he is trust
worthy, and they see that he is strong.
He has the will to advance the rights of
the people, and the power to defend
them. He belongs to the golden
age Of Presidents. He is of the stuff |
OF which Jefferson, Madison, Monroe,
were made, and this stuff has been fash
ioned in the moulds of the present. The
stern rectitude, the unbending purpose,
and the devotion to the cause of the
people of the earlier rulers of the Re-
public, has come again with added
powers to meet the enlarged scope of the
Nations growth. The confidence of the
people is not misplaced. 1t cannot be
shaken. Grover Cleveland is popular
with the masses. It is natural